Word: gating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoyment to thousands of people who could not possibly attend the games in person, such a course reveals an uneasiness in the minds of the promoters that seems strangely inconsistent with the reports of clamorous demands for seats at the coming World's Series and of a very gratifying gate at a fight between contenders of far from championship calibre. Ordinary business policy should warn them of the risk of antagonizing numbers of potential fans vastly greater than the relatively few who might be kept away from any one event by the possibility of hearing it on the radio...
...Park, Inc., and Stein-Bloch, Inc., into a new company called Fashion Park Associates. Rochester's Rosenberg is President. Weber & Heilbroners Lewis M. Weiller is chairman. The five groups of clothes which Fashion Park Associates will put out are Tailored at Fashion Park, Stein-Bloch, Charter House, High Gate, Tailor Guild. Thirty-two Holly controlled stores will sell them. The net incomes of the three now merged Companies last year totalled...
...over the sea. Because storms were ahead of them, most of the 60 passengers revised their wills. The dirigible rode out the storms comfortably. She tried to pass over Seattle. But winds made that excursion impracticable. To San Francisco she went directly, sidling through the Golden Gate on a cross wind near sunset; then to Los Angeles where she hovered until dawn. The remaining leg of her globe-trot, to Lakehurst, N. J., seemed commonplace after man's first flight across the whole vast, empty Pacific Ocean...
Suddenly hearing a low crescendo of oices, the officer whirled toward the new gate leading from the Mosque Omar to the lane, shouted a hoarse phrase at the drowsing Arabs. For a moment they stood horror-struck, then fled. Through the gate poured a screaming, howling mass of Arabs, flaunting banners that flapped like big bats in the twilight. Down the lane they roared. Vainly an old beadle tried to halt them, was seized by powerful dark hands, hurled aside. Two Jews bowed in prayer at the altar were savagely beaten. In a frenzy of plunder the Moslems burned prayer...
Waiting for them at the gate was Prince Ernst Rüiger von Starhemberg, a Gemsbart (beard of a chamois) jutting proudly from the back of his green felt hat, his grey and green hunter's coat tightly bone-buttoned...